Peach - how to prune

Don’t know how to graft? Good thing you joined this forum.

You never mentioned what rootstock your peach is on, Lovell was a standard drying and canning peach before it became a rootstock, Foundation Plant Services (ucdavis.edu) @derby42 How did that rootstock fruit end up? Almond rootstock - General Fruit Growing - Growing Fruit.

Citation is a peach plum hybrid, which I guess might make a nice fruit. A peach-almond hybrid stock Like an Atlas or Viking I suspect might not be worth eating.

Tree wise the absolute 100% correct choice is remove the blue and red branches and graft over the green. But I don’t think you want 100% correct.

Remove the Red branches graft over green with branches from blue. Check the guides section of the forum for posts.

Remember what the suckers you cut off look like. Those are the kinds of branches you will be cutting off in the winter to graft next spring.

Take a look at @Richard peach tree. Mid Pride Peach - Pictures! - Growing Fruit its open center but starts a little higher off the ground that doesn’t matter.


Never let your peach tree grow over 6ft tall. A branch hits 6tf cut its.

Richard keeps is at a neet 5ft